Why They Really Hate the SAT
by Steve Sailer
Published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 5/2/91, 800 words
"...the Associated Press, Newsweek, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and others recently reported that the SAT quizzes students on "regatta," by implication a word known mostly by white, male yacht owners. That "regatta" question, in fact, was scuttled back during the Ford Administration. All questions since have been pretested for bias...."
http://www.isteve.com/sat_test.htmHave you heard about the NY Regents tests? Students were supposed to answer a series of questions regarding Hemingway's "The Elderly Man and the Sea."